While showering praise on Indian shooters, Kiren Rijiju said the number of medals that our shooting team has won is commendable and he hope that they would carry the stupendous form into next year's Tokyo Olympics as well.

Indian shooters Apurvi Chandela and Deepak Kumar put in a dominant display to outclass China’s Yang Qian and Yu Haonan 16-6 in the final and clinch gold in the 10m air rifle mixed team event at the ISSF shooting World Cup.

With the likes of Apurvi Chandela-Deepak Kumar winning the mixed air rifle event and Manu Bhaker-Saurabh Chaudhary shooting gold in mixed air pistol event, India finished the ISSF World Cup in Rio de Janeiro with 5 gold medals.